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BLOs' meeting brings India, Myanmar closer : They have decided to hold such meetings from time to time relating to local security, crime and other border issues. India and Myanmar share a 1,643-km long border, including 440-km in Arunachal Pradesh. A high level 12-member team led by Naga ...

India sees increased demand for security equipment : Related Terms. Manufacturers. Mumbai, October 28 (QNA) - Unabated terror threats coupled with rise in crime rate and growing public awareness has seen the security equipment industry grow by 25 percent in India in the last three years, experts have said.

Slum-dwellers will be given property rights: Maken NEW DELHI: Housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Ajay Maken on Tuesday said slum-dwellers would be rehabilitated in the same neighbourhood as far as possible and would be given legal property rights over their dwellings. After taking charge as ...

“Redevelopment of slums critical for planned development of Delhi” Declaring that the first in-situ slum rehabilitation project undertaken at Kathputli Colony in his New Delhi parliamentary constituency was close to his heart, Union Housing and Poverty Alleviation Minister Ajay Maken said on Tuesday that more such ...

Is corruption the real poll issue this time? : As India Against Corruption gets ready to do another expose on a politician on Wednesday and the electoral race in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat hots up, we raise the question that each politician is betting on - how big an issue is corruption ? Watch ...

Allegations by India Against Corruption against Reliance Industries Limited ... New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal today exhumed the Niira Radia tapes to expose what he claimed was the hold of corporations over the government, specifically naming Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) owner Mukesh Ambani, who he said was "running the ...

Slum-dwellers will be given property rights: Maken NEW DELHI : Housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Ajay Maken on Tuesday said slum-dwellers would be rehabilitated in the same neighbourhood as far as possible and would be given legal property rights over their dwellings. After taking charge as ...

Lure of quick money pushes youths to crime GURGAON: Low risk and high return. It seems to be the new mantra among young and restless of Gurgaon who are getting involved in crime . A renowned psychologist explains that the trend of more and more students and youths landing into the world of ...

Absconding criminal nabbed by Patan crime branch AHMEDABAD: An absconding murderer Kanhaiya Asoda was nabbed by the Patan local crime branch after the criminal failed to report to the Ahmedabad central jail. Asoda was convicted of murdering his own brother in 2008 and was located in the central ...

Poverty and lack of privacy need not lead to rape : While Banerjee said he was not defending rape in his article, but the heinous act does form the basis of his argument that inequality of access to sex and privacy in urban India is a factor in sexual assaults. Read Banerjee's column here. While I agree ...

Housing bubble can burst: Govt : Attributing the housing boom in India to easy availability of loans, newly-appointed Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken today said that the housing bubble could burst in the absence of proper planning. As per the latest ...

Poverty and lack of privacy need not lead to rape : In Peru some women have had to deliver police summonses to their abusers, and in Pakistan police often refuse to register a complaint. Forensic examination in some countries focuses solely on whether or not the victim was a virgin. In Jordan officials ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Pakistan says protects rights, West disagrees : GENEVA (Reuters) - Pakistan , plagued by Islamists militancy, sectarian violence and frequent disasters that push its people deeper into poverty , told the United Nations on Tuesday it is a democratic and progressive state working to protect human rights.

The forgotten pledge : Pakistan vowed in 2000 to reduce poverty incidence to 13 per cent by 2015. Like others, after detailed exercise it translated MDGs into measurable targets duly benchmarked for close monitoring. With the deadline closing in, people believe that economic ... DAWN.com

Anti-Corruption Activist Targets Indian Company : In recent weeks, the activist and his group, India Against Corruption , have made headline news as they leveled allegations of corruption against several high-profile Indian government officials, including former law minister Salman Khursheed, who is ...

Pakistan: Clash of the titans : It grows along with growth in corruption , speed money, smuggling, narcotics, government contracts and tax evasion.” The growth of the black economy in the subsequent years in all probability would be much higher. The Economic Survey of Pakistan , ...

From Print Edition : This refers to Aijaz Zaka Syed's article 'India awaits an Arab spring' (Oct 26). India was never free of corruption at any point of its existence, so why the lamentation? In the past, the villains of corruption were easily spotted from among the ...

Combating corruption : THIS is with reference to the news report ' Corruption split Pakistan , says BD scholar' (Oct 21). Corruption is a global issue. Almost all the countries are confronted with the menace of corruption . Pakistan is no exception to this plague. It stands in ...

Combating Poverty at Its Roots : There is an old debate between those who say the way to tackle global poverty is to spend more on aid and those who believe instead that the solution is to deal with the weak institutions, corruption and conflict in developing countries. The truth is ... Wall Street Journal

No separate team needed to probe corruption cases: : We have engineers and officers from Indian Police Service and Indian Administrative Service among others. There is no need to have a separate investigation wing. Officers in the Chief Technical Examination wing are capable enough to tackle cases being ...

Money Power in Polls Root Cause of Corruption: Quraishi : Lack of transparency in political funding and use of unaccounted money in elections are the root causes of corruption in India and they need to be addressed urgently, former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi said today. Quraishi, who as CEC ...

In India, a Tweet can land you in jail : The disagreements have been particularly animated because of an ongoing anti- corruption movement in India which relies heavily on the use of new media to enlist support. Some Indians interviewed on television asked if they should now start consulting ...

Uzbek dictator's daughter has a role for Depardieu : MOSCOW — French actor Gerard Depardieu will reportedly play a part in the film based on a script written by the daughter of Uzbekistan's authoritarian President Islam Karimov. Gulnara Karimova has frequently been touted as a potential successor to her ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Moscow could tighten treason laws : MOSCOW , Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The upper house of the Russian Parliament passed a draft law Wednesday that would tighten penalties for the illegal use of state secrets. The Federation Council passed a draft measure that would increase fines from $6,000 to ...

Moscow Policemen Charged in Motorist's Fatal Stabbing : Moscow police chief Anatoly Yakunin has dismissed the entire leadership of the police precinct in Moscow's Khoroshevo-Mnevniki neighborhood where the accused policemen worked, the Investigative Committee statement said without specifying who was ...